EMC and VMware Cloud & Virtualization

Build Higher-Value Virtualization and Cloud Solutions

EMC and VMware have a joint vision to deliver innovative solutions and services enabling businesses and service providers to build a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), transform their operations and deliver IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS). Fundamental to this transformation is virtualization and cloud computing, delivering maximum IT efficiency and agility. As the #1 choice in virtualized environments, our customers benefit from our strong commitment to VMware and the powerful solutions that simplify management, improve data protection and increase performance while providing security of the IT environment. By helping IT store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way, customers gain efficiencies which offer breakthrough business value.

The Voice of the Customer: Why EMC for VMware

VSPEX BLUE EVO:RAIL Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance

Get a fast, low-risk path to the private or hybrid cloud. Powered by VMware EVO:RAIL, EMC VSPEX BLUE delivers virtualization, compute and storage in an agile, scalable, easy to manage hyper-converged infrastructure appliance (HCIA). Available as a single, all-inclusive product for easy ordering, EMC VSPEX BLUE accelerates time-to-market by taking you from power-on to VM creation in 15 minutes. With fully orchestrated installation, management, patching and upgrades, linear scaling grows with your business. Plus you get a single point of 24x7 support from EMC.

Customers expect IT solutions to deliver immediate value -- not in days, weeks or months. VMware EVO:RAIL takes the guesswork out of building, deploying, scaling and managing software-defined infrastructure services. With the help of our partners such as EMC, we are bringing the simplicity of consumer appliances to the world of enterprise infrastructure.

EMC and VMware share a joint vision to deliver an
SDDC architecture that abstracts, pools, automates and manages all IT resources in an automated and software-defined manner. The orchestration of data center services is automated with
VMware vCloud Suite across all software-defined components: compute, storage, and network. Our approach combines the leader in software-defined storage with the leader in virtualization and cloud computing.
EMC ViPR, the leading software-defined storage product, is an extensible software platform that abstracts storage with all its unique capabilities, from physical arrays into a single pool of virtual storage. Storage administrators then create virtual storage arrays that they can manage at the virtual layer according to automated policies. Data services, such as block, file, and object data services, run on top of the platform and leverage the unique attributes of the virtual storage pools and arrays. EMC Software-Defined Storage provides specific VMware integrations with interfaces into the VMware vStorage APIs (VAAI, VASA, VADP) across the EMC storage portfolio (
VMAX Family,
VNX Series,
Isilon,
XtremIO, Data Domain,
Avamar). EMC ViPR will integrate with
VMware vRealize Automation and
vRealize Operations to automate provisioning and improve performance, capacity and configuration management across the applications, servers, networks and storage environments.

A conversation with Pat Gelsinger around the Software-Defined Data Center

Together, EMC and VMware technologies accelerate the transformation of your data center to a cloud computing platform and run ITaaS. EMC and VMware offer three paths to your cloud infrastructure: build your own with best-of-breed components,
EMC VSPEX, and
VCE Vblock.Building your own cloud offers unmatched flexibility, but requires a significant amount of expertise, overhead and time to deploy and manage. EMC VSPEX is a proven reference architecture offering choice to customers. Because it is validated to work, it takes cycles out of design, testing, and deployment. Finally, VCE Vblock converged infrastructure, a collaboration between EMC, VMware, and Cisco, is a pre-integrated, pre-engineered system that offers simplicity though a single point of management and single point of support and offers the fastest time to deployment.